[A.K.Light]

If you stay with someone out of pity or a sense of obligation, your slowing yourself down and you're probably not helping them at all. They are depending upon something that is not real, it won't be as meaningful, and it won't last. The truth will reveal itself eventually and it will just be worse then. If you're honest, they may be hurt, but it's NOT your fault. Sometimes a little pain is necessary in order to know that you need to readjust. Better a little pain now than a lot of pain later. I think you help everyone more when you're honest, and that honesty might even mean that you won't have to cut them out of your life completely.